“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , The Flies

Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

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

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