It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.