Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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