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„Každý priateľ v nás predstavuje svet, ktorý sa zrodil až po jeho príchode, a len vďaka takýmto stretnutia sa rodia nové svety.“

„Neexistuje jeden veľký vesmírny zmysel pre všetkých, existuje len zmysel, ktorý každý z nás dáva svojmu životu.“

„Sen ma stále predbiehal. Dobehnúť ho, prežiť chvíľu v jednote, to bol zázrak.“

„Vlastníctvo vedomostí nezabíja zmysel pre úžas a záhadu. Vždy je tu viac záhad.“

„Život sa zmenšuje alebo rozširuje podľa odvahy.“

„Láska nikdy nezomrie na prirodzenú smrť. Zomiera, pretože nevieme, ako doplniť jej zdroj. Zomiera zo slepoty, chýb a zrád. Zomiera na choroby a rany; zomiera na únavu, chvenie, poškvrnenie.“

„Veci nevidíme také aké sú, ale také, akí sme my.“

„Aká je zlá situácia, keď žena očakáva, že muž postaví svet, ktorý chce, namiesto toho, aby ho vytvorila sama?“

„Existujú dva spôsoby, ako sa ku mne dostať: cez bozky alebo cez predstavivosť. Ale existuje aj hierarchia: samotné bozky nefungujú.“

„Hlboko prežívaný osobný život sa vždy rozširuje o pravdy, ktoré ho presahujú.“

„Sny prechádzajú do reality činov. Z činov opäť vychádza sen a táto vzájomná závislosť vytvára najvyššiu formu života.“

„Prišiel deň, keď riziko, že zostaneš pevne v zárodku, je bolestivejšie ako riziko, že rozkvitneš.“

“They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”

“The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.”

“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?… I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.”

“Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”

“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

“It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.”

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

“I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.”

“The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.”

“The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.”

“You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.”

“I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.”

“Neurosis was caused by our attempt to separate physical and metaphysical levels, to set them up in opposition to each other, thus engaging in an internecine war. If it is true that we do live on several levels simultaneously- drama and action, past and present, personal and collective- we are given ways to unify them: one by religion, the other by art. Separating such levels is only necessary when they conflict, and separation is a result of conflict. Seeing how these levels can work together in harmony is the task of our contemporary writers.”

“Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."”

“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”

“The dream has to be translated into reality.”

“The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man.”

“Love reduces the complexity of living.”

“I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.”

“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”

“Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.”

“No desire of the body, but for what lies in there, what lies in the flesh, the world, the thought, the creation, the illumination.”

“It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.”

“The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.”

“Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.”

“Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.”

“My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.”

“If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves.”