Raison d'être
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Raison d'être is a phrase borrowed from French where it means "reason for being"; in English use, it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone".
Raison d'être may also refer to:
- Raison d'être (band), a Swedish dark-ambient-industrial-drone music project
- Raison D'etre, an album by Australian jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale
- "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Dir en grey
- "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Nightmare used as opening theme of the anime Claymore
- "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band deadman
- "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese Electronic/rock band Denshiki Karen Ongaku Syudan (also known as Denkare)
- "Raison d'être", a song used as the ending theme of the Chobits anime by Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka
- "Raison d'etre", a song by British rock band Buzzcocks
- Raison d'être, a central theme in the Japanese anime series Ergo Proxy
- Raison d'être, an American Ale brewed by Dogfish Head
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