I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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 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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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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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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