If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

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

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

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

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.