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The original is: "L'enfer, c'est les autres"

As a French native speaker, "Hell is other people" is indeed how I'd have translated it myself.

i knew i heard it before!

that's my wasted youth :) iam. 1997. l'ecole du micro d'argent. hugely recommended for true hip hop fans. the best from france.

Not the best, because this is the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKbcXNBMnVg

La Cliqua! ;)

"L'enfer, c'est les autres". I don't know what "the Other" you're referring to, "the other people" seems correct to me in meaning. IANAPhilosopher tho

That's not what Sartre intended to mean and Huis Clos doesn't support that interpretation.