How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by...

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich...

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich...

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his...

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his...

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he...

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he...