In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

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

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.