You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too..

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved..

I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously..

Introspection is a devouring monster..

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing..

I write emotional algebra..

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires..

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert thi….

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences..

Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, a….

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witc….

atrophy of feeling creates criminals..

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of e….

Hollywood is a mirage factory..

One may gain one truth at the expense of another..

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as ….

You fall in love with people's minds..

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind f….

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe..

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium..

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself..