"although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate."
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"If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses"
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"I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."
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"Each friend represents a world in us."
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"I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced."
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"I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life."
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""We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.""
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"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
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"You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
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"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
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"In music I feel most deeply the passing of things."
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"What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life."
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"I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough."
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
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"I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life."
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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
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"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry."
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"I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live."
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"It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately."
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"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."
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