I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.