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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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