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

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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
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
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
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
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Adopt Blind Cease Growth Politics Religion
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Necessary One Liner
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
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
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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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
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
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
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Beautiful Goodness Luxury Minimalism Necessary

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