I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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.
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.