1. Why do existentialists emphasize artistic creation as a vital aspect of existence?
2. How can artistic creation to understand oneself be the ultimate cure to his Nausea?
3. How does a jazz record convince him to confront the bare existence of things?
4. Does existence precede essence?
5. Are human beings an accidental offspring of a meaningless reality?
6. Is the past really a meaningless concept that does not exist?
7. In what context can one find only "nothingness", an empty vacuu, that makes up existence?
8. Why pursue "perfect moments"? What do they mean?
9. What is Sartre trying to say about bourjois?
10. Does the narrator or the author despise people?
11. What is he looking for in gazing many people on the street? Is there anything one can see only when really looking? Is he really looking?
12. How does he experience revelation? What was so revealatory about his existence in the library?
13. What to make of Anny?
14. Why does he despise humanism and socialism? On what ground?
15. In what sense are those who know that they exist superior to those who do not?
16. "A life, given for nothing." How is this different from the concept of grace in Christianity?
17. What does the book suggest as a desriable mode of existing?
18. Am I what I do?
19. How about wonder instead of nausea?
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