The only abnormality is the incapacity to love..

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hur….

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment..

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection..

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images..

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer..

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alon….

You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly cl….

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted..

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.….

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only….

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground..

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born..

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He….

While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childis….

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street,….

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which wi….

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom..

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is..

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the height….

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun..