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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!
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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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.
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