Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINReality 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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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