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Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

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“And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that’s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“At the Swan Lake” (detail) - Hans Zatzka

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“My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure. I create a myth and a legend, a lie, a fairy tale, a magical world, and one that collapses every day and makes me feel like going the way of Virginia Woolf. I have tried to be not neurotic, not romantic, not destructive, but may be all of these in disguises.”

— Anais Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin: Volume Four (1944-1947)

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““And she carves her hips into mine like she’s Michelangelo and I’m something holy.” ─ Alex Thomas 🕊️

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“The tragic desire for understanding in the center of the utmost emotional brutality – the tremendous struggle to get deeper into your own feelings.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller dated February 12, 1932; from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller: 1932-1953.

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Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

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“What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead. But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be–and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult–then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn’t it?”

Ingmar Bergman, from an interview conducted c. October 1964