To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

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.