“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.”
“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.”
“one must first learn to live oneself before one blames others”
“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
“Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either”