| For instance, the person who takes out a massive loan for an impressive car and spends money on things that they cannot afford can find that when the money runs out or the creditors come knocking on their door, they discover that the friends that they thought they had are no longer around | I am a professor in a way different than the way I am six feet tall, or the way a table is a table |
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| The vivacity and vividness with which Sartre paints each one of his characters amidst their existential exigencies leaves behind their ever-lasting impressions on the fertile mental space | I had never previously come across the guile and craft of Sartre, the artist and only knew Sartre, the philosopher whose authoritative philosophical monologues were curt and declarative, sans the resplendence of an artistic canvas |
He's finally decided he's going to do it.
8| This is an excellent novel about unpleasant people, with some unforgettable scenes | We continue to make ourselves |
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| In other words: he doesn't decide who he wants to be and face up to this responsibility, but rather flees into a life of non-choosing, a nihilistic, epicurean life | He is free to choose and this freedom is his condemnation |
There's little fun to be had with this novel but it does convey a remarkable depth of characterisation, nobody comes out of it very well and indeed none of the cast seem particularly enamored with each other.
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