"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me."

"But presently I began to bubble with happiness. No, my daughters' absence did not sadden me at all—quite the reverse.…"

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

"It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so. I simply asked t…"

"What is an adult? A child puffed with age."

"It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself... It seems unfair. You can't assume t…"

"Il n'y a pas de mort naturelle: rien de ce qui arrive à l'homme n'est jamais naturel puisque sa présence met le monde…"

"His personal prestige, his qualities, his competence assure him a preponderant role however; since 1927 he has been a…"

"The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attackin…"

"When Sartre and I met not only did our backgrounds fuse, but also our solidity, our individual conviction that we wer…"