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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anais Nin

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
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Book Careless Dreams Madness Movement Night Peace Seek
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
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
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
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
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Feeling Language Music Sensation Sense Sound
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Country Dreams Friendship Kite Life Love Space
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Break Up Broken Heart Call Hairs I Hate You Restless Stars
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
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

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