Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.
Man's existence precedes his essence
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.