The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.