L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

When it comes to lovedo not eversettle for anythingless than magical.

A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.