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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Necessary One Liner
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
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
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Alone Come Creation Inspirational Love Stand World
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
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.
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Hunger Love Marriage Men Need Strength Women
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 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
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World

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