Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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