I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.