“I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.”

— Jean Paul Sartre

Nausea (1938)
Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

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

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