…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

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

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.