“Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.”

— Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit

Act 1, sc. 5
Variant translation: Among murderers. We are in hell, my dear, there is never a mistake and people are not damned for nothing.
No Exit (1944)

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