Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.