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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Anais Nin

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
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
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
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
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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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
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
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
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Consistent Look Pleasure Quiet Transformation Women
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
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Deep Fairy Tale Love One Liner Poison
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
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

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