- Do not seek the because--in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
jul 7 2009 ∞
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