You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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 is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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 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 hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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 live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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