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Jean-Paul Sartre

"Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself."

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"Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

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"If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."
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"The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it."
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"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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"Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction."
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"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
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"The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism."
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"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
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