If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

all success cloaks a surrender

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.