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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Suffering, Rhythm, Like Me
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.151, New Directions Publishing

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Hurt, Suffering, Tears
"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Singing, Suffering, Sorrow
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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