“I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.”

Hugo to Hoederer, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

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

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