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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

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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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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
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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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
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
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Adopt Blind Cease Growth Politics Religion
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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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
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
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power
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
I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
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

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

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