You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

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

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

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.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.