Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.