A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.