There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
We are our choices.
You are – your life, and nothing else.
To choose not to choose is still to act.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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.