The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.