We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.