To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
Ordinary life does not interest me.
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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.
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
Jazz is the music of the body.
In chaos, there is fertility.
Dreams are necessary to life.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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