You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."


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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ...
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ...
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the...
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punis...
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ...
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ...
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my fe...
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, ...
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides chil...
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The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whol...
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His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s...
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And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the...
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The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are...
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Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins...
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So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, clutterin...
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In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...
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When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as ...
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You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
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Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untrac...
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When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on...
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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all ...
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Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and ligh...
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The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t...
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Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain p...
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They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding ...
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Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, sad...
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I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understan...
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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...
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At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happines...
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...
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The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...
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