I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

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

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.