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.
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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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