I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
ANAIS NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Life 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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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