The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

I am myself and I am here.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.