105 quotes
If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves.
House of Incest (1936)
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
House of Incest (1936)
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Winter of Artifice (1939)
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Diary entries (1914)
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men’s dreams.
Children of the Albatross (1947)
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Diary entries (1914)
I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Diary entries (1914)
No desire of the body, but for what lies in there, what lies in the flesh, the world, the thought, the creation, the illumination.
Diary entries (1914)
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
A Woman's Journal : A Blank Book with Quotes by Women (2002)
Love reduces the complexity of living.
Diary entries (1914)
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Diary entries (1914)
My first vision of earth was water veiled.
House of Incest (1936)
I love your silences, they are like mine.
Under a Glass Bell (1944)
I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.
Under a Glass Bell (1944)
The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.
Diary entries (1914)
You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.
A Spy in the House of Love (1954)
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
Diary entries (1914)
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
Collages (1964)
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
Diary entries (1914)