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.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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 life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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