“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , book The Devil and the Good Lord

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The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

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