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

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.