Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.