To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.