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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Anais Nin

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
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
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
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
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
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
Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Explore Prejudice Protection Strength Weakness Willing
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Acceptance Experience Imperfection Inspirational Life One Liner Teaching
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself 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
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
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
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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Afraid Hate Men Strength Women Women Empowerment
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
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
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

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