Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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