QuoteQuest“He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) (1945)
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
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