Sartre lived so as to remain unencumbered by possessions.

Evidence

His dream was to pass through the world unencumbered. The possessions that delighted Beauvoir horrified Sartre. He too liked travelling, but he kept nothing from his trips. He gave away books after reading them. The only things he always kept by him were his pipe and his pen, and even these were not for getting attached to. He lost them constantly, he wrote: ‘they’re exiles in my hands’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 391

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s radical freedom extended to refusing accumulation of money and objects. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 392

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s radical freedom extended to refusing accumulation of money and objects. #corroborates (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 392