SaturdayJul 18, 2026
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Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.
If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a 'talent;' my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are that is the fact.
All human actions are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed....
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.
Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
There were the days when you peered into your self, into the secret places of your head, and what you saw there made you fear with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it, you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea.
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
God does not exist...We are precisely on a plane where nothing exists but men.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Hell is other people.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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