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„Neexistuje jeden velký vesmírný smysl pro všechny, existuje pouze smysl, který každý z nás dává svému životu.“

„Sen mě vždycky předběhl. Zázrakem bylo dohnat ho, žít chvíli ve shodě.“

„Přišel den, kdy riziko zůstat v poupěti bylo bolestivější než riziko, že rozkvete.“

„Život se zkracuje nebo prodlužuje podle toho, jakou má člověk odvahu.“

„Vlastnictví vědomostí nezabíjí smysl pro úžas a tajemství. Vždycky existuje další tajemství.“

„Nenajdete lásku, láska najde vás. Má to něco společného s osudem a tím, co je napsáno ve hvězdách.“

„Člověka nemůžete zachránit, můžete ho jen milovat.“

„Mým posláním, pokud se rozhodnu ho přijmout, je najít mír přesně s tím, kým a čím jsem. Být pyšná na své myšlenky, svůj vzhled, své talenty, své nedostatky a zastavit neustálé obavy, že nemůžu být milována taková, jaká jsem.“

„Člověk nepotká člověka ve stejném stavu bytí, fázi, náladě, nikdy.
Všichni sedíme na houpačce.
Čím je Henry přesycen, po tom já lačním, zbrusu novým, zdravým, obrovským hladem.
Co ode mě chce, nemám náladu dávat.
Jak opačné jsou naše rytmy….“

„Úkolem spisovatele není říkat to, co dokáže říct každý, ale to, co říct nedokážeme.“

„Nevidíme věci takové, jaké jsou, ale takové, jací jsme my.“

„Když slepě přijmeme náboženství, politický systém, literární dogma, staneme se automaty. Přestaneme růst.“

„Každý přítel v nás představuje svět, který se možná zrodil až po jeho příchodu, a teprve tímto setkáním se zase rodí nový svět.“

„Sny přecházejí do reality činů. Z činů pak opět vychází sen a tato vzájemná závislost vytváří nejvyšší formu života.“

“Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.”

“To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.”

“He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?”

“Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.”

“No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.”

“When she did finally fall asleep it was the restless sleep of the night watchman continuously aware of danger and of the treacheries of time seeking to cheat her by permitting clocks to strike the passing hours when she was not awake to grasp their contents.”

“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.”

“For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.”

“I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.”

“Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other.”

“Solitude may rust your words.”

“We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.”

“Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”

“The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.”

“Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!”

“The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.”

“I think that natural truths will cease to be spat at us like insults, that aesthetics will once more be linked with ethics, and that people will become aware that in casting out aesthetics that they also cast out a respect for human life, a respect for creation, a respect for spiritual values. Aesthetics was an expression of man's need to be in love with his world. The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.”

“I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.”

“I feel a fatigue of the tongue seeking to utter impossible things until it twists itself into a knot and chokes me. I feel a fatigue at this mass of nerves seeking to uphold a world that is falling apart. I feel a fatigue at feeling, at the fervor of my dreams, the fever of my thought, the intensity of my hallucinations. A fatigue at the sufferings of others and my own. I feel my own blood thundering inside of me, I feel the horror of falling into abysms. But you and I would always fall together and I would not be afraid. We would fall into abysms, but you would carry your phosphorescences to the very bottom of the abysms. We could fall together and ascend together, far into space. I was always exhausted by my dreams, not because of the dreams, but because of the fear of not being able to return. I do not need to return. I will find you everywhere. You alone can go wherever I go, into the same mysterious regions. You too know the language of the nerves. You will always know what I am saying even if I do not.”

“Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!”

“This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men’s dreams.”

“By shutting out the outside world, drugs place one not only in confrontation with the dreaming self, but also ones nightmares.”

“I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.”

“The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment.”

“I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”

“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”

“The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.”

“I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”

“He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."”