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.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom__h the soul-destroying boredom__f long days of mild content.

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.

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

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.