Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.