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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

Anais Nin

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Allow Creature Enough Occurance Wings
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
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
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
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
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Anxiety Drown Kill Love Man Panic Save Want
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Afraid Hate Men Strength Women Women Empowerment
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Breathe Inspirational Life Secret Want
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution

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