If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, obscenity were concerned. In another world, circles, bars of music keep their pure and rigid lines. But existence is a deflection.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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