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.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The 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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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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