[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.

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