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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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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I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
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Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
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If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
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You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer I don't tease nicely.
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself me, the man.
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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].
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If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
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In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
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