To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

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

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.