“The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
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“لأنك كذلك,يخافك الأصدقاء. أمام امرأة عفوية مثلك يرتبك المرء ولا يعرف إذا كان يحترمك أم يخافك. كل من اقترب منك خرج بهدوء ,واصطف مع طابور الذين يشتهونك من بعيد.”
― طوق الياسمين
― طوق الياسمين
“صغاراً نأتي ..ولاشيء نمضي..”
― طوق الياسمين
― طوق الياسمين
“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
― The Prince and the Pauper
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
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