I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.
I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
No great thing happens suddenly.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.
Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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