When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.