"You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars."
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"For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love."
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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
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"We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection."
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"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
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"I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."
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"We are never trapped unless we choose to be."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed."
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"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."
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"Your eyes make me shy"
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"All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken."
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"Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love."
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"We have been poisoned by fairy tales."
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"I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often."
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"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength."
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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
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"With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before."
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"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
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"The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless."
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