It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii

There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.

I tried to love you less.I couldn't.

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there s the true, preestablished balance.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.