Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

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.