That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. - Simone de Beauvoir

No dia em que for possível à mulher amar na totalidade, não na sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma mas para se encontrar, não para se demitir mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.