He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past … - Jean-Paul Sartre

When you want to understand something you
stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.

When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.

I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.