Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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