The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINLove 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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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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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 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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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