Sartre admitted his pre-1940 journals lacked originality

Evidence

Sartre himself noted in a letter to Beauvoir on January 9, 1940, that he has reread his journals and found them to be devoid of the originality he so craved (LC, 27-28). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 322

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the influence-direction claim, which is the core historiographical question of this chapter. — connects to: Sartre himself doubted whether art really saves us from life’s chaos — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 339; Sartre repeatedly failed to finish grand philosophical conclusions — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 528

Broader Connections

• Sartre repeatedly failed to finish grand philosophical conclusions #exemplifies (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 528