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

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

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.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

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.