You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

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.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

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

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.