Each friend represents a world in us possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We write to taste life twice.
...When you are highly sensitized to love, when you vibrate deeply, sexually, bodily...the being is enlarged, its capacity highly increased.
...I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living.
It is not the failed relationships which influence our life — they influence our death.
For me the artist simple means one who can transform ordinary life into a beautiful creation, with his craft. But I did not mean creation strictly applied only to the arts. I meant creation in life, the creation of a child, a garden, a house, a dress. I was referring to creativity in all its aspects. Not only the actual products of art, but the faculty for healing, consoling, raising the level of life, transforming it by our own efforts.
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