“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.