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" Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. "

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" The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. "

" Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection. "

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

" The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. "

" Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Dreams are necessary to life. "

" I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. "

" The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. "

" There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. "

" Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. "

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

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

" 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. "

" How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. "

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

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "