To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.