Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Dreams are necessary to life.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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