[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.