Jean-Paul Sartre. The age of maturity (№ 436052)

He was definitely out of tune with himself: he was soured in this viscous heat and felt a long-standing monotonous feeling of everyday life - in vain he repeated the phrases that once inspired him: “To be free. To be self-sufficient, to be able to say to myself: I exist because I want to, to be my own source. Empty, high-flown words, the tiresome chatter of an intellectual.