Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Acting is happy agony.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.