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

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

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

“all of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were amongourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the disorder, the day to day drift: I amashamed for myself and for what exists in front of it.”

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

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

“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.But you have to choose: live or tell.”