When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.