"Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires."
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"Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons."
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"I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama."
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"A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion."
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"My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water."
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"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."
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"To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice."
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"she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience."
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!"
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"Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning."
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"A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies."
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"My diary seems to keep me whole."
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"I will not be just a tourist in a world of images."
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"Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing."
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"He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity."
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"The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror."
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"For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated."
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"gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams."
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"The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium."
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