Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted."
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Nausea
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts."
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"Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him."
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"From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so."
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"Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all."
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