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In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.
Sep 18, 2025
Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?
Human beings 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.
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
No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?
I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.
everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.
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.
How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?
It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: 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 most wholeheartedly.
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.
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!
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone
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.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
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.
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
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.
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread.
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
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.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
Family is the most important thing in the world.