Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

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

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

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.

I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.