It was Jean-Paul Sartre who said ‘hell is other people’.
The gloomy French philosopher had a querulous relationship with the world in general but it’s not too much of a flight of fancy to speculate that perhaps he came up with this particular aphorism after one of the regular summer holidays to Rome that he took with his partner Simone de Beauvoir.
Because, as much as holidays are supposed to be a time to recuperate from the weft and warp of the daily grind, it is also the moment we’re most likely to encounter individuals who encompass the very, very worst of
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