It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

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

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

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.

Commitment is an act, not a word.