The past is the luxury of proprietors.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

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

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.