We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

Man is condemned to be free

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.