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.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.