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Russian literature
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. […]
French literature
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“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” Introduction Being and Nothingness is Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal work […]