#ay

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#always #dies #drawn #finished #late

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