God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity