The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.