If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.