Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.