Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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