“Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.”

“There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.”

“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.”

“What we love we may also despise.”

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.”