We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of 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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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She 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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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