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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1938
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 195

A historian in a French port town is seized by a thickening horror at the sheer, pointless existence of things, and diagnoses in it the truth of his own freedom.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air.
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

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