Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to…

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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....

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

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...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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

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

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

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...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.