When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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