Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

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.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.