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

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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...

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...

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...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

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...

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...

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...

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are...

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are...

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...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and...

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

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