As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.