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[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
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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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
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For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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