Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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