You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINWhat 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.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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