A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

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

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.