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.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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