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Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea (1938)

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I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)

For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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