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Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

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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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
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An individual chooses and makes himself.
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We do not judge the people we love.
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She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
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