Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

There are truths which can kill a nation.