Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits