Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
Jean-Paul SartreI say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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 SartreIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre