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Jean-Paul Sartre · 1955
A collection of four existentialist plays by Sartre: No Exit (Huis Clos), The Flies (Les Mouches), Dirty Hands (Les Mains sales), and The Respectful Prostitute (La Putain respectueuse), translated from French by Stuart Gilbert and Lionel Abel. The plays explore themes of freedom, responsibility, and human relationships through dramatic dialogue.
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Hell is other people: consciousness traps us in mutual, inescapable judgment, making freedom agonizing and identity perpetually contested.
self-and-identity
I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can't prevent your being there.
ETOP-RC-014Nothing of me is left on earth — not even the name of coward. So, Inez, we're alone. Only you two remain to give a thought to me.
ETOP-RC-026shame
Yes, we are criminals — murderers — all three of us. We're in hell, my pets; they never make mistakes.
ETOP-RC-011There must be thousands and thousands, and probably they're sorted out by understrappers who don't know their job. So they're bound to make mistakes.
ETOP-RC-010erotic-as-power
I'll see you don't sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? What's the betting? I'm watching you, everybody's watching.
ETOP-RC-027I implore you, Garcin — help me quick. I don't want to be left alone. Olga's taken him to a cabaret.
ETOP-RC-020Illuminates
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