Existence is prior to essence.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.