All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.