"Nothing seemed true; I felt surrounded by cardboard scenery which could quickly be removed…."

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1959 edition, p. 106-7. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

"People who live in society have learned to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. Is that why my flesh is naked? You might say - yes you might say, nature without humanity… Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea"

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1964 edition, p. 29. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)