Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. |
I confused things with their names: that is belief. |
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. |
I hate victims who respect their executioners. |
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. |
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. |
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. |
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. |
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. |
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. |
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. |
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. |
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. |
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. |
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. |
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life. |
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. |
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. |
We do not judge the people we love. |
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? |