When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

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.

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.