To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
安排任何来到你身边的碎片。
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
杀死一个幽灵比杀死一个现实要困难得多。
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
语言是唇上的美酒。
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.