The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.