The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.