"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real frienship?"
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
"I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself."
"The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality."
"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, or a new country."
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
"The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning."
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself."
"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise."
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies because of blinding errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, and tarnishing."
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
"Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers."
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others."
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."