"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…"

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

"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…"