She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

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.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

Buying is profound pleasure.

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.