It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.