“Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.”
“Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.”
“I am always on the women's side.”
“I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”
“I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.”
“I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.”
“Is anything worth it?”
“Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!”
“She died praying that she might die.”
“The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.”