Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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