Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

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

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.