The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINThe 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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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