This 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:… - Jean-Paul Sartre

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, 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.

A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it

But you have to choose: live or tell.

Varlığı bir rezaletti ve daha sonra üstüne alacağı sorumluluklar bu rezaleti doğrulamaya yetecekti.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.