Jean-Paul Sartre Trying Quotations

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

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.