# At the Existentialist Cafe - [ ] 🚧 In Progress 🚧 ## Quotes > As Sartre argued in his 1943 review of The Stranger, basic phenomenological principles show that experience comes to us already charged with significance. A piano sonata is a melancholy evocation of longing. If I watch a soccer match, I see it as a soccer match, not as a meaningless scene in which a number of people run around taking turns to apply their lower limbs to a spherical object. If the latter is what I’m seeing, then I am not watching some more essential, truer version of soccer; I am failing to watch it properly as soccer at all. > > [[At the Existentialist Cafe - Chapter 07 OCCUPATION, LIBERATION#^Paragraph42]]