I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.