"The word 'existentialism' has been so much abused and so much misunderstood that I will try to explain what it means."

"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."

"I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."