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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.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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When You Live Alone You No Longer

Jean-Paul Sartre
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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