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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Anais Nin

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
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
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
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
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
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
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Acceptance Experience Imperfection Inspirational Life One Liner Teaching
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love

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