As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
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Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
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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.
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