We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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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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Anxiety 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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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