"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De | Marriage | 5 bookmarks

"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Attitude | 4 bookmarks

"He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Fashion | 2 bookmarks

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Family | 3 bookmarks

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

Nin, Anais | Attitude | 12 bookmarks

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais | Love | 7 bookmarks

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais | Friends and Friendship | 3 bookmarks

"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Dietrich, Marlene | Sex | 3 bookmarks

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

Dietrich, Marlene | Men and Women | 2 bookmarks

"There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing."

Dietrich, Marlene | Laughter | 2 bookmarks