The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning. The Temptation to Exist (1956)
Let us speak plainly: everything which keeps us from self-dissolution, every lie which protects us against our unbreathable certitudes is religious. The Temptation to Exist (1956)
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. The Temptation to Exist (1956)
The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to form a reality to reality's detriment. The Temptation to Exist (1956)