There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.