| Quotes |
Topic |
| Acceptance | To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. |
| Art and Artists | In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. |
| Buying | Buying is a profound pleasure. |
| Children | It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do. |
| Comfort | I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. |
| Existence | One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. |
| Finance and Economics | Buying is a profound pleasure. |
| Freedom | I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. |
| Housework | Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. |
| Inspirational | One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. |
| Justification | There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. |
| Miscellaneous | Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. |
| Negativity | To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. |
| Women | One is not born a woman, one becomes one. |
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