We do not judge the people we love.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

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.

Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.