Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Time flies when you are having fun.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.