Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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 don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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 cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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