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

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

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.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.