Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Le génie n'est qu'un prêt: il faut le mériter par de grandes souffrances, par des épreuves modestement, fermement traversées; on finit par entendre des voix et l'on écrit sous la dictée.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Death is a continuation of my life without me...