Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.