“It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake”

— Jean Paul Sartre , book Saint Genet

(179).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

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

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