I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.