“...for one cannot enter an image unless one makes oneself imaginary”

—  Jean Paul Sartre, book Saint Genet

Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 297

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

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