All of a sudden something breaks off sharply. The adventure is over, time resumes its daily routine. I turn; behind me, this beautiful melodious form sinks entirely into the past. It grows smaller, co...
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
أستطيع أن أقيس قوة عاطفتى لو أتيت من الأعمال ما يؤكدها ويصادق عليها.
Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано за всичко, което ти се ще да сториш. Особен момент от следобеда. А днес е непоносим.
The humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like an elder brother who is conscious of his responsibilities; the humanist who loves men as they are, the one who loves them as they ought to be,...
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.
Voici ce que j'ai pensé : pour que l'événement le plus banal devienne une aventure, il faut et il suffit qu'on se mette à la raconter. C'est ce qui dupe les gens : un homme, c'est toujours un conteur...
These young people amaze me; drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If you ask them what they did yesterday, they don't get flustered; they tell you all about it in a few words. If...
The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no lo...
Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the st...
Perhaps it’s inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,’ he said to himself: ‘it would mean that we were duped by nature.
Me gustaría tanto abandonarme, olvidarme, dormir. Pero no puedo, me sofoco: la existencia me penetra por todas partes, por los ojos, por la nariz, por la boca...Y de golpe, de un sólo golpe, el velo s...
M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel my existence.
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
La patronne était là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.