‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.