Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man’s heart, the gods are powerless against him.
In love, one and one are one.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.