The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

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.

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

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.