One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.