Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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