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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Epistemologist
Essayist
Existentialist
Intellectual
Literary Critic
Meteorologist
Novelist
Ontologist
Opinion Journalist
Paris
France
Jean Paul Sartre
J.P. Sartre
Sarutoru
Rangbao'er Sate
Jacques Guillemin
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
J.-P. Sartre
Sartre
Everything
Beside
Without
Drinking
Nothing
Eating
Love
Arms
Life
Stay
Dies
Lying
Ends
Carcass

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