Man is what he wills himself to be.
The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she lo...
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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.
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.
Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical e...
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact,...
Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.