“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”

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

Act 3, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

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

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