Your eyes make me shy.
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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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