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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
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
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Alone Come Creation Inspirational Love Stand World
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
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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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Artist Freedom Monk Possession Powerful Rich World
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
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
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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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

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