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
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. - Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. - Jean-Paul Sartre
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. - Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. - 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
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. - Jean-Paul Sartre
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. - Jean-Paul Sartre