One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Hell is other people.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
