I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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