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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Each 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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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Beginning Business Dreams Influence Inspirational Reality
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
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Break Up Broken Heart Call Hairs I Hate You Restless Stars
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Adversity Defeat Endure Inspirational Life Lose Stumble Suffering
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
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
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
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
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Adopt Blind Cease Growth Politics Religion
You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Fall In Love Mind One Liner People
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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