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I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

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...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

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And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, ...more

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In chaos, there is fertility.

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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadeq...more

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Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have...more

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And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouse...more

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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

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The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When I return to Hugo in the evening, to the ...more

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I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essential...more

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You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in s...more