albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Novels are longer than life.

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.