
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
“A man picks up a pebble on a beach and suddenly cannot put it down — because he realizes, for the first time, that existence has no reason to exist.”
EraModernist / Existentialist
Pages253
Difficulty★★★★☆ Advanced
AP Appearances3
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existence
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absurdity
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