A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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