And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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 secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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