Good things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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