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I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
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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Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
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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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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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