Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.