I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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