Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

True wit has a grave intention.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.