Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned..

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me..

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty..

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image ….

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced..

Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life..

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 wor….

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me..

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it..

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman..

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappear….

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning..

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt..

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness..

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy..

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of….

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger t….

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others..

When one is pretending the entire body revolts..

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality….

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are..