The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
ANAIS NINLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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