Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.
Words There is no good father, that’s the rule. Don’t lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you.
Man’s existence precedes his essence.