Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

Nothingness haunts Being.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.