Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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 is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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