Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINEach 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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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