Dreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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 believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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