“You take souls for vegetables…. The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , Dirty Hands

Heinrich, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

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

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