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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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