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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
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
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Deep Fairy Tale Love One Liner Poison
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
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 are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
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
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
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
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
You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Fall In Love Mind One Liner People
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
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
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall

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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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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