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

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" Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. "

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