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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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.
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 phrase which would open her being.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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.
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.