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La Nausee does make its way up to the surface occasionally. How can it not? I live in a plastic featureless part of the world. But am glad to have found out the few sub-cultures that make life in paradise bearable.
He yawned: he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense, stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of life.
- Jean-Paul Sartre in "Age of reason".
He yawned: he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense, stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of life.
- Jean-Paul Sartre in "Age of reason".