Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

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

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!