I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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