Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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 possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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