Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Nausea
Topic existence distance
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated by Lloyd Alexander
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