In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.