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

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

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

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.