"Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death."
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"the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him."
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"We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream."
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"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."
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"We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics."
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"It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it."
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"I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived."
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"Solitude may rust your words."
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"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."
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"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."
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"... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs."
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"I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her."
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"One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion."
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"Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction."
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"Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously."
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"Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness."
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"The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image."
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"There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time."
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"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise."
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"Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life."
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