Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.