This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.
Jean-Paul SartreI never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
Jean-Paul SartreI am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
Jean-Paul SartreMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul SartreBut for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.
Jean-Paul Sartre