Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINTranquillity 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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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