A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.