Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

"Ah! Yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."

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