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.
ANAIS NINWe 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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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