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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#exercise #function #generosity #know #life

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. ↗

— May Sarton

#feel #give #himself #love #make

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

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! ↗

— May Sarton

#capacity #compared #every #few #forget

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

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#eternal #illusion #life #lose #meaning

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#books #i #i have learned #know #learned

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe