We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINShe 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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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.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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