Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.