The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

Introspection is always retrospection

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.