“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.
(There is no reality except in action.)”
― Existentialism is a Humanism
(There is no reality except in action.)”
― Existentialism is a Humanism
“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I was the beginning, the middle and the end all rolled into one small boy, already old, already dead, here, in the shadows, between the stacks of plates higher than himself, and outside, very far away, in the cast and gloomy sunshine of glory. I was the particle at the beginning of its trajectory and the series of waves which flows back on it after it has struck the terminal buffer. Reassembled and compressed, one hand on my tomb and the other on my cradle, I felt brief and splendid, a flash of lightening swallowed up in darkness.”
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
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