If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.