If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.