It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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 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 walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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