The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.