We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.Anais Nin
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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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