I love your silences, they are like mine.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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