When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.