"...The Negress sings. Can you justify your existence then? Just a little? I feel extraordinarily intimated...Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...but couldn't I, in another medium?...It would have to be a book: I don't know how to do anything else...
They would think about my life as I think about the Negress: As something precious and almost legendary."
-Sartre, Nausea