When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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