How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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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My 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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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