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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported b...  
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painf...   Nature
Dreams are necessary to life.   Dreams
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dre...   Dreams
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should pr...  
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arri...  
Good things happen to those who hustle.  
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.  
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she w...  
I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They h...   Nature
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giv...  
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slav...  
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching ima...  
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who m...  
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no w...  
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writin...   Art
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familia...  
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been b...  
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first...  
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go t...  
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity a...  
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.  
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.  
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of livin...  
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and th...  
People living deeply have no fear of death.   Life
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a m...  
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man ...  
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.   Love
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itsel...  
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and myst...  
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we ar...  
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by...  
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and st...  
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more pa...  
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning...  
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it ...  
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, othe...  
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?  
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma...  
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerab...