One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else. |
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. |
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. |
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. |
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. |
Sometimes the less treaded way is less treaded for very good reasons. |
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget |
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. |
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity |
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. |
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. |
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. |
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June |
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. |
We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. |