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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. T...more

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying...more

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

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Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and...more

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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once...more

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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

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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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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.