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.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

To choose not to choose is still to act.