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Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

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  • Mario Carbajalhas quoted6 years ago
    The mind of man, which he did not ask to be given, demands a reason and a meaning—this is its self-defining cause—and yet it finds itself in the midst of a radically meaningless existence. The result: impasse. And nausea.
  • Daria Teterukovahas quotedlast year
    Suffering is the origin of consciousness,” Dostoevski wrote
  • Despandrihas quotedlast month
    "Suffering is the origin of consciousness,"
  • Arooma Zehrahas quotedlast month
    How I love to read my name on envelopes
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted3 months ago
    “A crowd is untruth,” Kierkegaard repeats with choric insistence. Only in the self can the drama of truth occur.
  • RichardSShas quoted10 months ago
    This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.

    But you have to choose: live or tell.
  • RichardSShas quoted10 months ago
    Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary.
  • RichardSShas quoted10 months ago
    must be such an upheaval. If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become. I’ve read that there are travellers who have changed physically and morally to such an extent that even their closest relatives did not recognize them when they came back.”
  • RichardSShas quoted10 months ago
    , Monsieur, you’re lucky ... if what they say is true-travel is the best school. Is that your opinion, Monsieur?”
  • RichardSShas quoted10 months ago
    Science! It is up to us.” Then he went and took the first book from the first shelf on the far right; he opened to the first page, with a feeling of respect and fear mixed with an unshakable decision. Today he has reached “L”-“K” after “J,” “L” after “K.” He has passed brutally from the study of coleopterae to the quantum theory, from a work on Tamerlaine to a Catholic pamphlet against Darwinism, he has never been disconcerted for an instant. He has read everything; he has stored up in his head most of what anyone knows about parthenogenesis, and half the arguments against vivisection. There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left: he will say to himself,

    “Now what?”
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