What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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 possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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