The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

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

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Buying is profound pleasure.

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

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.