The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!