We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.