The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one’s environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to order and be obeyed; and he must have known that he had not...

this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more...

idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the...

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

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.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat...

It had been his opinion that it might serve his country if the Chinese and his men saw that he was not afraid to die. For the comprehension of our age and the part treason...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me...

I will be­lieve that the bat­tle of fem­i­nism is over, and that the fe­male has reached a po­si­tion of equal­ity with the male, when I hear that a coun­try has al­lowed it­self to be turned...

Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in...

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.