Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINThe 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 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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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