You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.