She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.