“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , book Nausea

Source: Nausea

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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

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