Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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