"Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered."
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"Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky"
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"Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity."
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"destruction is ultimately self-destruction."
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"Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality."
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"... only love begets love."
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"The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses."
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"Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer."
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"The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder."
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"It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment."
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"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness."
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"When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body."
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"At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous."
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"All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution."
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"There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like."
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"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."
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"Memory is a great betrayer."
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"Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
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