You live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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