No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

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

He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.