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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. T...more

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain a...more

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Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

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Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying...more

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

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Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.