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

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

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.

We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

Existence precedes and rules essence.