Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

My only books were women's looks.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.