To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

Life is a useless passion.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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