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“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.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.”
― The Conquest of Bread
― The Conquest of Bread
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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