It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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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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