We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINHow 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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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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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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