If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Jean-Paul Sartre
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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