Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.