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People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

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Dreams are necessary to life.

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

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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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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.

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

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

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I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

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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.

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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