Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

all success cloaks a surrender