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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.

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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myse...more

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I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

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Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house,...more

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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinar...more

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

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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more,...more

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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He ...more

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an in...more

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At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, a...more

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when...more