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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

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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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Hunger Love Marriage Men Need Strength Women
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
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
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
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
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
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
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
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
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
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

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