She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.