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.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.