Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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