It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of des….

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique..

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now..

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses..

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions br….

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite..

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living..

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself..

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic ….

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons..

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it..

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry..

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams..

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular ton….

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion..

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and ….

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear a….

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was da….

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it ….

Ordinary life does not interest me..

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge..