One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.