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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

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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
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Breathe Inspirational Life Secret Want
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
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
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience Moments Passion Passionate Personality
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Contact Human Precious Preserve Rare Relationship
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
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
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
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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Destiny Fate Finding Love Stars Writing

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