There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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