Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.