Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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