“Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.”

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Life is opinion.