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# This Week - Jul 05, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-07-05/
- Published: 2013-07-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:11:01.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, jason farago, longform, longreads, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> From this distance, of course, it’s clear what I was doing wrong: I was reading far too much significance into things and, worse, cared more about the supposed significance of things than the things themselves...Yet looking back on that awful year I can see how desperate I was to give form to my bad luck, to give my individual life narrative scale...'*Il faut choisir: vivre ou raconter,*' Sartre wrote in La nausée; between living one’s life or narrating it you can choose only one.  
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> — [At thirty (Jason Farago)](https://medium.com/editors-picks/715c7c4d068d?ref=drewshannon.net)