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.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.