Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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