"The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth."
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection."
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"What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is."
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"The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy."
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"I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness."
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"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
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"Violence is a symptom of impotence."
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it"
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"Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you."
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"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
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"I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it."
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"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
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"Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus."
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"I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
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"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."
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"Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite."
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"The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love."
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"The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest."
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