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

To know the world, one must construct it

You don't remember days, you remember moments.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.