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

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.