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Act 10, sc. 2

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil." in the context of "Act 10, sc. 2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.