I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINThe 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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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 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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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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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