For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

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

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.