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Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Giving, Up To You, Life Has No Meaning
"Existentialism and Human Emotions".

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Generosity, Giving, Want

I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Believe, Order, Giving
Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Ideas, Giving, Photograph
Jean-Paul Sartre (2005). “Colonialism and Neocolonialism”, p.2, Routledge

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
Generosity, Giving, Facts
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Music, Hands, Giving

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Son, Blood, Giving
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1951.

And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Giving, Desire

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