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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

Anais Nin

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
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World
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
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
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
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
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
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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Break Up Broken Heart Creation Die Pain People World
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Change Different Love People Prince Reserve Right
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
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual

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