“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ”

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”

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

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”