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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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