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

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.