There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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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.

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Jazz is the music of the body

Jazz is the music of the body

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

If life's a gamble well fuck it I got bank.

If life's a gamble well fuck it I got bank.

People hate what they can't conquer, envy what they can't get, and destroy what they...

People hate what they can't conquer, envy what they can't get, and destroy what they...