I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.
Jean-Paul SartreI am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
Jean-Paul SartreThis is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.
Jean-Paul Sartre