The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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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...

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....

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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...

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...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I...

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I...

Only true friends go straight to your refrigerator when they go to your house.

Only true friends go straight to your refrigerator when they go to your house.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.