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- To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply…
- Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
- I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
- What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an…
- Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
- Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
- I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
- You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
- Ordinary life does not interest me.
- I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his…
- The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
- Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
- I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
- Dreams are essential to life.
- Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
- I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
- The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
- No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted…
- If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or…
- The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is…
- My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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