“People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.”

“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”

“I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale or You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming'. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity!”

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

“As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logicalimpossibility.”

“There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”