Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINMy mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say 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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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