We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.