You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

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

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.