"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts."

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Source: No Exit. Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher and playwright known for his existentialist ideas, particularly in works like 'Being and Nothingness'.

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