To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.