We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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