Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.