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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
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If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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