The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.