Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject – freedom

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

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

Jean-Paul Sartre