We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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 can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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