You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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