I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to…

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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,...

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...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

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....

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

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

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

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

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

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 will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

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

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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....

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the...

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for 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...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,...

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,...