I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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