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

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

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.