There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.