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.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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