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

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.