The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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