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  • #1
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #2
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “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

  • #4
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “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.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #6
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “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

  • #7
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
    and I have followed the source of rivers towards their
    source or plunged into forests, always making for other
    cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and
    I could never turn back any more than a record can spin
    in reverse. And all that was leading me where ?
    To this very moment...”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #8
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “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, Nausea

  • #9
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #10
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden. And the decomposed flesh would have been In the way in the earth which would receive my bones, at last, cleaned, stripped, peeled, proper and clean as teeth, it would have been In the way: I was In the way for eternity.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #11
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “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.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #12
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident. It came cunningly, little by little; I felt a little strange, a little put out, that's all. Once established it never moved, it stayed quiet, and I was able to persuade myself that nothing was the matter with me, that it was a false alarm. And now, it's blossoming.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #13
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the café, I am the one who is within it.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #14
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my throat, it caresses me- and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #15
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #16
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am, I am, I exist, I think therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think anymore.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #17
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

  • #18
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #19
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Thing are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #20
    Osamu Dazai
    “After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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