For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Throw 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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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