Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.