I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Life 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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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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