June 21: Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre was born 110 years ago today, in 1905. Here are 10 things he said:

1. Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
2. Commitment is an act, not a word.
3. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
4. If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
5. When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
6. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
7. For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
8. A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
9. Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour.
10. If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.