What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.