GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn’t allowed time to — to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher and writer No Exit [Huis Clos] (1944)
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