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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
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
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN

Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
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
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Giving Inspirational Moments One Liner Passion
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
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
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

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