“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”

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Nausea, by Jean Paul Sartre

“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”

—Sartre

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

—Jean Paul Sartre

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre

“there were people who did not exist at all (...) and others who existed rather too much. The barman, for instance. (...) he was rather too much the barman, manipulating his shaker, opening it, and tipping yellow froth into glasses with slightly superfluous precision: he was impersonating a barman. (...) 'Perhaps it's inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is.”

—The Age of Reason, Jean Paul Sartre

“I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre

“God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“My thought is me: that is why I can’t stop. I exist by what I think .. and I can’t prevent myself from thinking. At this very moment – this is terrible – if I exist, it is because I hate existing. It is I, it is I who pull myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: hatred and disgust for existence are just so many ways of making me exist, of thrusting me into existence. ”

—Jean-Paul Sartre; “Nausea”

“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, Nausea

“Ahora ya no pienso en nadie; ni siquiera me cuido de buscar palabras. La cosa se desliza en mí más o menos rápido; no fijo nada, la dejo correr. La mayor parte del tiempo, al no unirse a palabras, mis pensamientos quedan en nieblas. Dibujan formas vagas y agradables, se disipan; enseguida los olvido.”

—“La náusea” - Jean-Paul Sartre.

“Nada ha cambiado y sin embargo todo existe de otra manera”

—La Náusea, Jean Paul Sartre.

“Il est impossible d'apprécier correctement la lumière sans connaître les ténèbres. ”

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Jean Paul Sartre

“Lo sé. Sé que nunca más encontraré nada ni nadie que me inspire pasión. Tú sabes que ponerse a querer a alguien es una hazaña. Se necesita una energía, una generosidad, una ceguera... Hasta hay un momento, al principio mismo; en que es preciso saltar un precipicio; si uno reflexiona, no lo hace. Sé que nunca más saltaré.”

—Sartre, La Náusea

“I feel so strange. Don't you ever feel that way? When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I really exist at all.”

—No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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