"She Came to Stay" Quotes

You must live life forwards, but understand it backwards.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

We are not our own masters; we are not our own subjects.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting.