"I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman."

-- Anais Nin

#Angel Quotes #Two Quotes #Sinister Quotes

“Let the dead bury the dead.”
“Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.”
“I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.”
“There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.”
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
“To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.”
“I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.”
“Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.”

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