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

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.