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.
ANAIS NINI 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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Your eyes make me shy.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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