“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one”

“A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.”

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”

“Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd”