One handles truths like dynamite.
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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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