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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

Anais Nin

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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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Break Up Broken Heart Creation Die Pain People World
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
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
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
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
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
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
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Believe Change Deep Influence Inspirational Life Ourselves Revolution
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Attitude Character Goodness Inspirational
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

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