Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.