“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Being and Nothingness
― Being and Nothingness
“Hell is—other people!”
― No Exit
― No Exit
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
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