Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.