There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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