“Hell is other people.”
“Man is a useless passion.”
“Words are loaded pistols.”
“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
“When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.”
“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
“Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”
“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
“All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure.”
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“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.”
“Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.”
“I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”