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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Couple Romantic Sex Valentine Want Wild
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
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.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
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
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
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 is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
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

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