There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.