Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.