No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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It 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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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