Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
I do not think therefore I am a moustache.
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.