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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
Fact
Generosity
Nothing
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men
Science
God
Existence
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hate
Respect
Victims
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Murder
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men
God
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Victory
Defeat
Detail
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Soul
Sin
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life
Books
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Failure
Actions
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Battle
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Trust
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence
Rules
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Experience
People
Acting
Question