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.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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 men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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