The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I...
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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.
القيم الأخلاقية غامضة غير محددة، وهى تمتد إلى ما لا نهاية.
Celebrity, for me, equal hatred
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
Nothingness haunts Being.
If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods....
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.
Nothingness carries being in its heart.
I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.
Her eyes stare at me but she seems not to see me; she looks as though she were lost in her suffering.