What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.

We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.