The most important experiences a man can have are those that
take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because
it requires all our courage.
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Terence to Maria, quoting the Marquis de
Sade. |
It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find
God.
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Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even
when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing.
They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the
dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure
they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes
for them.
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Ralf to Maria. |
Every human being experiences his or her own desire; it is
part of our personal treasure and although, as an emotion, it
can drive people away… it brings those who are important
to us closer. It is an emotion chosen by my soul, and it is
so intense that it can infect everything and everyone around
me.
The Alchemist
From Maria's Diary. |
The strongest love is love that can demonstrate its fragility.
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared
for daily dose of pain and discomfort.
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Sex has come to be used as some kind of a drug: in order to
escape reality, to forget about problems, to relax. And like
all drugs, this is a harmful and destructive practice.
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From Maria's Diary. |
We all have a clock inside us, and in order to make love,
the hands on both clocks have to be pointing to the same time…
If you love another person, you don't depend on sex act to feel
good. Two people who live together and love each other need
to adjust the hands of their clocks, with patience and perseverance,
until they realize that making love is more than just an encounter,
it is genital 'embrace'.
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From Maria's Diary. |
If you live your life intensely, you experience pleasure all
the time and don't feel the need for sex.
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From Maria's diary. |
When a teacher helps someone to discover something, the teacher
always learns something new too.
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Terence to Maria. |
The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the
way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion
that we don't need to know all this in order to be happy, and
yet we watch other people's tragedies and sometimes suffer along
with them.
As I say, it's the human condition. Ever since we were expelled
from paradise, we have either been suffering, making other people
suffer or watching the suffering of others. It's beyond our
control.
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Terence to Maria. |
Man has understood that suffering, if confronted without fear,
is his passport to freedom.
The Alchemist |
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything.
When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
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From Maria's diary. |
The art of sex is the art of controlled abandon.
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From Maria's diary. |
We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified
when happiness becomes real possibility; and we die wanting
to punish everyone else because we feel impotent, ill-used and
unhappy.
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Ralf to Maria. |
Why was it that in God's holy world men were only interested
in showing her pain. Sacred pain, pain with pleasure, pain with
explanations or without, but always pain, pain, pain...
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Maria. |
"I felt that pain is a woman's friend."
"That is the danger."
"I also felt that pain has its limits."
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Maria and Ralf. |
...it's (pain) a very powerful drug. It's in our daily lives,
in our hidden suffering, in the sacrifices we make, blaming
love for the destruction of our dreams. Pain is frightening
when it shows its real face, but it's seductive when it comes
disguised as sacrifice or self denial. Or cowardice. However
much we may reject it, we human beings always find a way of
being with pain, or flirting with it and making it a part of
our lives.
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Ralf to Maria. |
Pain and suffering are used to justify the one
thing that brings only joy: love.
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Ralf to Maria. |
I need to love - that's all, I need to love. Life is too short,
or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it
so badly.
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From Maria's diary. |
Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief
that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted.
The Alchemist
Maria thinking. |
Certain things cannot be shared. Nor can we be afraid of the
ocean into which we plunge our own free will; Fear cramps everyone's
style. Man goes through hell in order to understand this. Love
one another, but let's not try to possess one another.
The Alchemist
Maria thinking. |
They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes
a day, and that they'll pay a fortune for it. That's not true;
a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning
to his life.
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Maria thinking about the other prostitutes,
her mother and her friends. |
Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do
not.
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Maria asks Ralf to touch her and feel her
with his hands. |
In all languages in the world, there's the same proverb: "What
the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over". Well,
I say there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they
are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings we try to
repress and forget. If we are in exile, we want to store away
every tiny memory of our roots. If we're far from the person
we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.
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Maria, in her diary, quoting a priest. |
Love was necessary if one was to experience pleasure in bed.
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Maria thinking. |
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