And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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