"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."

"I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone."

"Man is a being who is not what he is, and is what he is not."

"The only thing that can save man is to take responsibility for his own existence."

"Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his hum…"