The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.