Sartre's Nausea

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“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions

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I fix nothing, I let it go.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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But it stayed there, like a dead weight inside me.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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To be nothing but coldness.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it’s frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)

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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (via nauseadaily)

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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)

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I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (via nauseadaily)

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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)

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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (via nauseadaily)

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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)