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

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.