Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.