Quotes from JeanPaul Sartre

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

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

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.