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Troubled Sleep
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Wikipedia article
'Troubled Sleep' (, published in the United Kingdom as 'Iron in the Soul'London: Penguin, 2002) is a 1949 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the third part in the trilogy 'Les chemins de la libert' ('The Roads to Freedom').
"The third novel in Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, 'Troubled Sleep' powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished feelings of a group of Frenchmen whose pre-war apathy gives way to a consciousness of the dignity of individual resistance - to the German occupation and to fate in general - and solidarity with people similarly oppressed." - Random House
Jean-Paul Sartes Quotes
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
References
*https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1466.Jean_Paul_Sartre
Category:1949 novels
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