It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.