I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I…

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

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...

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

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

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.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by...

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from...

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

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

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...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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....

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

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...

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge