It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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 don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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