Jean-Paul Sartre quote about thinking from Nausea - My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.
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“ My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. ”
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Nausea
Topic thinking existence existentialism
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander
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“Ma pensée, c'est moi : voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe par ce que je pense… et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser. En ce moment même — c'est affreux — si j'existe, c'est parce que j'ai horreur d'exister.” Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée

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Jean-Paul Sartre quote about thinking from Nausea - My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.
Jean-Paul Sartre quote about thinking from Nausea - My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.