Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself..

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay irides….

The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: ….

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm..

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically..

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, ….

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 hersel….

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is a….

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed..

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all….

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation….

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us..

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go..

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try ….

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love..

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself..

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom..

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way..

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's mus….

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an….