I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the...
ANAïS NIN
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punis...
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ...
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ...
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my fe...
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, ...
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides chil...
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The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whol...
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His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s...
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And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the...
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The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are...
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Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins...
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So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, clutterin...
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In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...
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When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as ...
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You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
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Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untrac...
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When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on...
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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all ...
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Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and ligh...
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The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t...
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Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain p...
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They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding ...
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Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, sad...
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I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understan...
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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...
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At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happines...
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...
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The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...
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