Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

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

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.