“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , book The Age of Reason

Source: The Age of Reason

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

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