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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes: Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
         

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.


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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
         



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