The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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