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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anais Nin

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
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
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
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
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
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
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
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
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
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
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Beautiful Goodness Luxury Minimalism Necessary
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Afraid Hate Men Strength Women Women Empowerment
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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