I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
Jean-Paul SartreWhat I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.
Jean-Paul SartreA pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the āIā pales, pales, and fades out.
Jean-Paul Sartre