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I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.