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

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.