I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINFor 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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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