There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.