A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.