Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

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

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.