“ I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”

“ 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. ”

“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ”

“ 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. ”

“ What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ”

“ Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ”

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

“ There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ”

“ We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”

“ We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”