We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.