Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Buying is profound pleasure.

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

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.