Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.