“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
“I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions”
“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”
“The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the café, I am the one who is within it.”
“INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.”