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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

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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
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Consistent Look Pleasure Quiet Transformation Women
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
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
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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Catch Dreams Inspirational Live Miracle Moments Positive Run
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
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
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Clear Confusion Deep Life One Liner Reality
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Couple Fantasy I Love You Madness Share
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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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Destiny Fate Finding Love Stars Writing
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
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
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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Hunger Love Marriage Men Need Strength Women
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
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
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

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