Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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