We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.