And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.


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I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.
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What I cannot love, I overlook.
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He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasu...
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is gr...
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effe...
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Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more active...
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At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.
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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, inclu...
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to b...
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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, ...
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside t...
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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do...
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.
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She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don’t have a language fo...
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the botto...
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When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. Ther...
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to...
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t...
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ...
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence...
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
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You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
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We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I write emotional algebra.
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She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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