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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, political activist. Garcin in No Exit, act 1, sc. 5, Gallimard (1947).

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