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

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

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.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.