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.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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