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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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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Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.
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I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: Look for God in no other place than everywhere. Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!
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A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
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I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.
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Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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