Isabel’s Reviews > Nausea > Status Update

“I’m afraid of cities. But you mustn’t leave them… In the cities, if you know how to take care of yourself, and choose the times when all the beasts are creeping in their holes and digesting, behind the heaps of organic debris, you rarely come across anything ore than minerals, the least frightening of all existants.”

existence is a fullness which man can never abandon

“Tired and old, they kept on existing, Against the grain, simply because they were too weak to die, because death could only come to them from the outside; strains of music alive can proudly carry their own death within themselves like an internal necessity: one they don’t exist. Everything exciting is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

“I realized that there is no halfway house between non-existence and this floating abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, and obscenity were concerned. In another world, circles, bars of music keep their pure and rigid lines. But existence is a deflection.”

“how happy one must be to be nothing more than a Legion of Honour and a moustache and no one sees the rest”

“existence is an imperfection “

Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can’t describe it; it’s like the Nausea and yet it’s just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens /that I am myself and that I am here/; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.