I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Nothingness haunts Being.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.

Man's existence precedes his essence