The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
We do not judge the people we love.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
