He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered… - Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions

All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.