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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....”

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
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