I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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