I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.