The existentialist cannot accept that man can be helped by any sign on earth, for he will interpret the sign as he chooses. - Jean-Paul Sartre

به این فکر کردم که برای اینکه یک واقعۀ پیش پا افتاده تبدیل به ماجرا شود، کافی است و لازم است که آن را تعریف کنم. این همان چیزی است که مردم را گول می زند، آدم همیشه قصه گوست. با قصه های خودش و دیگران زندگی می کند. هرچه را که برایش رخ می دهد، از خلال همین قصه ها می بیند و تلاش می کند طوری زندگی کند که انگار دارد آن را نقل می کند.

ولی باید بین زندگی و قصه گویی یکی را انتخاب کند.

But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence.

Quietism is the attitude of people who say, "let others do what I cannot do." The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action. It goes further, indeed, and adds, "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is." Hence we can well understand why some people are horrified by our teaching.