I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].