It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you. - Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected ; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken : I staggered under the weight of my responsibility. I started and saw nothing, I struggled in the midst of rites which were invented on the spot and tore them to shreds with my strong arms. At those times she hated me.