“When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Diary entry of Tuesday, 30 January
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
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