I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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