Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
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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.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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 must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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