A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Existence is prior to essence.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

Man must be invented each day

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.