it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.