This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.