"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is— other people!"
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.