Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.
The unknown is my compass.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Dreams are necessary to life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.