Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes about Adventure

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What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Adventure, Add, Canvas

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Adventure, Order, Achieve

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: 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

Adventure, Men, People

Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Monday, Hero, Adventure

Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.54, New Directions Publishing