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“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“the diversity of things, their individuality, were only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted, leaving soft, monstrous masses, all in disorder—naked, in a frightful, obscene nakedness.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea