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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
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
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Beautiful Goodness Luxury Minimalism Necessary
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
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
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Anxiety Drown Kill Love Man Panic Save Want
Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Entrepreneur Happen Hustle Motivational Work Hard
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Believe Change Deep Influence Inspirational Life Ourselves Revolution
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
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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Age Death Gold Life Love Magic Transformation
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
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
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
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Artist Freedom Monk Possession Powerful Rich World
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
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
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World

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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