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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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vitiate

The good that I try to do will be vitiated at the roots

—p.212 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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the jars of literary history inspo/misc

[...] In the event of a Soviet victory, we will be passed over in silence until we die a second time; in the event of an American victory, the best of us will be put into the jars of literary history and won't be taken out again.

—p.205 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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exigent

the freedom of man and the coming of the classless society are likewise absolute goals, unconditioned exigencies which literature can reflect in its own exigency

—p.203 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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praxis

as a producer and revolutionary, he is par excellence, the subject of a literature of praxis

—p.194 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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the slender thread of his gaze inspo/misc topic/literary-theory

[...] The writer, in opposition to bourgeois ideology, chose to speak to us of things at the privileged moment when all the concrete relations which united him with the objects were broken, save the slender thread of his gaze, and when they gently undid themselves to his eyes, untied sheaves of exq…

—p.182 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre