It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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