Man is condemned to be free

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.