For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the prostitute and the saint
I am the wife and the virgin
I am the mother and the daughter
I am the arms of my mother
I am the barren and my children are many
I am the married woman and the spinster
I am the woman who gives birth and she who never procreated
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my husband
And he is my rejected son
Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one.
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Hymn to Isis. |
At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy
tale and the other in the abyss.
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While she was waiting for her Prince Charming to appear, all
she could do was dream.
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that
the whole universe is on our side... And yet if something goes
wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty
that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life
moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of
seconds.
The Alchemist
From Maria's Diary. |
After a while she began to enter a kind of paradise, the feelings
grew in intensity, until she noticed that she could no longer
see or hear clearly, everything appeared to be tinged with yellow,
and then she moaned with pleasure and had her first orgasm.
Orgasm! It was like floating up to heaven and then parachuting
slowly down to earth again.
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Maria discovers masturbation. |
...but something always went wrong, and the relationship would
end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was
the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life.
After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought
only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
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The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly
women?
Eleven Minutes |
There was one thing her mother said that she never forgot:
'Beauty, my dear, doesn't last.'
Eleven Minutes |
Sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept
the gifts the world offers you.
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From Maria's diary. |
If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have,
first of all, to be faithful to myself.
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From Maria's diary. |
If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre
love out of my systems.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's diary. |
The little experience of life I've had has taught me that
no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion - and that
applies to material as well as spiritual things.
The Alchemist
From Maria's diary. |
Anyone who has lost something they thought was
theirs forever finally come to realize that nothing really belongs
to them.
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From Maria's diary. |
It is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing
that can change someone's mind is love.
Eleven Minutes |
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible
part called body.
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From Maria's diary. |
But if I don't think about love, I will be nothing.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's diary. |
Humans can withstand a week without water, two weeks without
food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is
the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Eleven Minutes |
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement…
Freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives
him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person
who loves the most.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's diary. |
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible
for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what
we feel.
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From Maria's diary. |
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the
true experience of freedom: having the most important thing
in the world without owning it.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's diary. |
There is always a right moment to stop something.
The Alchemist |
Being young inevitably means making mistakes.
Eleven Minutes |
Passion: it can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking
meeting between two people… It's there in the excitement
of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervor,
in the certainty that one is going to realize a dream. Passion
sends us signal that guide us through our lives, and it's up
to me to interpret those signs.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's Diary. |
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost
a miracle.
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From Maria's Diary. |
The great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning
of total love. Love is not to be found in someone else, but
in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that,
we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when
we have someone to share our feelings with.
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From Maria's Diary. |
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling
at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears,
it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's Diary. |
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which
of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's Diary. |
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to
someone.
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From Maria's Diary. |
What is real always finds a way of revealing itself.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's Diary. |
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before
the bodies see each other.
Eleven Minutes
From Maria's Diary. |
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