“ I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ”
“ 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. This is a kind of death. ”
“ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ”
“ People living deeply have no fear of death. ”
“ I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”
“ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ”
“ Dreams are necessary to life. ”
“ Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ”
“ Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ”
“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”
“ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ”
“ I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ”
“ 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 individual novel, a book for each person. ”
“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ”
“ Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ”
“ Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ”
“ What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ”
“ There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ”
“ A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ”
“ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ”