There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul SartreWith a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.
Jean-Paul SartreIn a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?
Jean-Paul SartreLike morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.
Jean-Paul Sartre