If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.