One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.