It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.