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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Feeling Language Music Sensation Sense Sound
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Clear Confusion Deep Life One Liner Reality
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Adore Carry Sincerity Struggle Terrifying Yourself
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Children Depth Explore Life Magic Power Truth Wonder
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng

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