Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 8, 1891 Death: September 30, 1986
She did not so much cook as assassinate food..
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable..
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back..
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless..
In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma..
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present..
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle..
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed..
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it..
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification..
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with r….
Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions..
Hope is a talent like any other..
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. Th….
Language is memory and metaphor..
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received..
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it..
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible..
War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think tha….
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ..….
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit..