#ay

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#only #over #room #silence #sort

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. ↗

— May Sarton

#creation #day #discipline #each #foolishness

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

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#fascism #kills #number #them #victims

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #clock #early #late #three

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

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#after #anything #happens #i #murder

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#beasts #better #killed #men #run

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#cannot #day #hours #saint #sixteen

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