To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
"Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1956.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.