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Nausea

Sartre's greatest novel ― and existentialism's key text ― now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he r

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Jean-Paul Sartre (7)James Wood (1)

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Obligation, Responsibility, Generosity, kindness

“We choose someone to love only by not choosing to love millions of others...”

— James Wood, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Special Someone, Right Person, choosing who to love

“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Fall in love, Loving Someone

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Alone, explanation, realization

“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind in my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Sleep, Sleeping, Sleeping Condition, desire to sleep, Problems

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Existence

“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Thoughts, Words

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Books, Reading, Learning, Book Lover