What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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