If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

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

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

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.