Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is...

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is...

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing,...

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing,...

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.