#at

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#guy #only #rock #rowing #time

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #clock #early #late #three

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#others #politics #right #science #wrong

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#being #believed #her #kept #nothing

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#could #does #man #rather #sum

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#hour #literature #single #someone #trouble

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#another #because #community #involve #longer