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Nausea

A philosophical novel exploring existential anguish and the meaninglessness of existence through the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a man living in the port town of Bouville who experiences a profound metaphysical crisis while researching a historical work.

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What this book knows

Existence precedes essence: consciousness recoils from brute contingency, seeking form where there is only nauseous fact.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Absent

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self-and-identity

to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat… to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note
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a time would come when the book would be written… a little of its clarity might fall over my past
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embodiment

still further down, Nausea, timid as dawn… All the things around me were made of the same material as I, a sort of messy suffering
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Cheeks of a corpse. I stagnate, fall half-asleep… the dark room on the twenty-first floor cooks under a high pressure
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mortality

Thirty years old! I pity myself… What will I do all day long? I'll take walks. And then what?
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this tortured bleeding self they didn't want to kill… He cannot lose himself
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