Buying is a profound pleasure.
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted – all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria – it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
One cannot start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it’s exigencies.