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You live out the confusions until they become clear.

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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
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual
The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Enemy Lack Love Man Ourselves Outside Woman
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
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
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience Moments Passion Passionate Personality
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live

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