We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.