"It's true. I'm not authentic. With everything that I feel, before actually feeling it I know that I'm feeling it. And then, bound up as I am with defining and thinking it, I no longer more than half-feel it. My greatest passions are mere nervous impulses. The rest of the time I feel hurriedly, then elaborate in words, press a little here, force a little there, and lo and behold an exemplary feeling has been constructed, good enough to put in any bound volume. All that men feel, I can guess at, explain, put down in black and white. But not feel. I fool people: I look like a sensitive person but I'm barren."
- Sartre, 1930
- Sartre, 1930
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so i just added you to my mental list of People Who I'd Like To Deliver A Hug To (incidentally, you're right next to Ice-T)
i know how you (and sartre) feel, though. if you want, send me your address, i will send you a book you might find helpful in breaking away from his bad influence (it's a good book, but don't worry, not the good book
i know this is just the internet and all, and i'm hardly even around anymore, but i consider you a friend. just so you know. and when i have friends who i sense are having a rough time, but to whom i can't deliver hugs, i'm irresistibly compelled to send them books. it's a strange illness, really.