Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.