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.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.