“ Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ”

“ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ”

“ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ”

“ Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ”

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

“ I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ”

“ Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ”

“ How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. ”

“ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”

“ Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ”