Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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