When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!