Jean-Paul Sartre quote about love from Nausea - 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.
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“ 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. ”
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Nausea
Topic love beginning energy
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander
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“Tu sais, pour se mettre à aimer quelqu'un, c'est une entreprise. Il faut avoir une énergie, une curiosité, un aveuglement… Il y a même un moment, tout au début, où il faut sauter par-dessus un précipice : si on réfléchit, on ne le fait...” Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée

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Jean-Paul Sartre quote about love from Nausea - 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.
Jean-Paul Sartre quote about love from Nausea - 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.