You cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINReality 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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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