Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.