Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.