The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

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

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

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.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.