If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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