I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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