I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINLove 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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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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