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When I don't write, I feel my...

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

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The diary taught me that it i...

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

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It is my secrecy which makes ...

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

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There is an ugliness in being...

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

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You carry away with you a ref...

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

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But the artist persists becau...

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

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Everything with me is either ...

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

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Writers do not live one life,...

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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The important task of literat...

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

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What a mystery this is, desir...

What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

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[in the]..curious way that my...

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

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One must be thrust out of a f...

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

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I have this weird obsession a...

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

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We celebrate peace. Yet we pa...

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

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The core of creation is to su...

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

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The basis of insincerity is t...

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

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One discovers that destiny ca...

One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

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There is no bleaker moment in...

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

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There is no denying that we a...

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

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I like extravagance. Letters ...

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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