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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

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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
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
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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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Allow Creature Enough Occurance Wings
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Giving Inspirational Moments One Liner Passion
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
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power
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
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Children Depth Explore Life Magic Power Truth Wonder
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
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
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
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

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

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