Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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