If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.