The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

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.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.