There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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