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.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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