I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

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