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

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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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Change Different Love People Prince Reserve Right
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
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng
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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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Contact Human Precious Preserve Rare Relationship
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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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Clouds Destroy Inspirational Sky
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
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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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Feeling Language Music Sensation Sense Sound
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
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
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Couple Romantic Sex Valentine Want Wild
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
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
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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Destiny Fate Finding Love Stars Writing
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

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

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