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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
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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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