Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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