Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.