There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.