Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of c….

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences..

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting..

I am rooted, but I flow..

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark..

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages..

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

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself..

You cannot find peace by avoiding life..

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age..

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living..

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement..

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others..

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life..

A light here required a shadow there..

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful..

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up w….

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves..

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly..