The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Jazz is the music of the body.
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Dreams are necessary to life.
In chaos, there is fertility.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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.
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.
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
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