Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.