It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Live with no time-out.