Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINFor 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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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