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

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.