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 abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, no matter what I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

"İnsan kendi kendine sormalı," diye düşündü Mösyö Darbédat, sorumluluk nerede başlar ya da daha çok nerede biter?

Ötekilere yalan söylemesinden hoşlanıyordum. Ama bana aynı biçimde davranmamasını isterdim. Bütün bu ölülerin üstünden, çarşılardaki yankesiciler gibi anlaşabileceğimizi ve onun en sonunda bana gerçeği söyleyeceğini ummuştum. Oysa hiçbir şey söylemedi bana, evet, hiçbir şey!