When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINLife 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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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