I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Man is condemned to be free
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.