identity
“The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.”
“I’m a novelist, period. An American novelist.”
“Charm is a woman’s strength, just as strength is a man’s charm.”
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”
“Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“Action is character.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.”
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
“Man is the only animal that can be bored, that can be discontented.”
“Bond. James Bond.”
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students.”
“We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.”
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.”
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”
“We should try to discover who we are and refuse what we are.”
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
“Anatomy is destiny.”