"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons."

"Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live."

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle."

"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."

"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."

"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."

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

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits"

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness."