If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NINThe 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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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 love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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