• 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
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) 1905-1980
  

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1. possessively
2. nothing
3. possess
4. abandon
5. through
6. manner

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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. by : Jean-Paul Sartre

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