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You cannot save people, you can only love them. (Anaïs Nin)
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. View quote
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Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance - that is all! View quote
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For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. View quote
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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. View quote
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds... View quote
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions. View quote
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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 individual novel, a book for each person. View quote
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. View quote
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. View quote
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The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. (Anaïs Nin)
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. View quote
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. View quote
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. View quote
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Good things happen to those who hustle. View quote
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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day. View quote
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth. View quote
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? View quote
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. View quote
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth. View quote
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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. (Anaïs Nin)
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. View quote
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. View quote
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. View quote
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. View quote
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