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- To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
- 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…
- The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
- This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to…
- One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people…
- Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves…
- I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the…
- He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
- To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
- I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more…
- It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came…
- Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and…
- We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
- I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions,…
- And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,…
- Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more…
- I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to…
- I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes…
- There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.
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