“Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster”

— Jean Paul Sartre , book Saint Genet

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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

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

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