In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.
No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.