I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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 only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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