... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

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