When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINThrow 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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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 real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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