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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.

Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Fall In Love Mind One Liner People
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Break Up Broken Heart Creation Die Pain People World
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Allow Creature Enough Occurance Wings
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Couple Fantasy I Love You Madness Share
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Age Death Gold Life Love Magic Transformation
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Alone Come Creation Inspirational Love Stand World
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
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
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
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity

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