Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. – Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. – Jean-Paul Sartre
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically. – Jean-Paul Sartre
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. – Jean-Paul Sartre
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. – Jean-Paul Sartre
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life. – Jean-Paul Sartre
