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"Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head.'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it's inside him."

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About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright associated with existentialism. His major works include Nausea and Being and Nothingness. He received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but declined it.

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