It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.