Jean-Paul Sartre about heart (“Nausea”, 1938) - 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.
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“ 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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Jean-Paul Sartre about heart (“Nausea”, 1938) - 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 about heart (“Nausea”, 1938) - 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.