The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

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

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.