it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

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

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.