If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him. - Jean-Paul Sartre

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If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

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About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Moshe Milner (CC BY-SA)

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Pen Names: Jacques Guillemin
Alternative Names: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre • Jean Paul Sartre • J.P. Sartre • J.-P. Sartre • Sartre
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In the distance.
Above my head; above my head; and this instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and
limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
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