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Dreams are necessary to life.

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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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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
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
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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Catch Dreams Inspirational Live Miracle Moments Positive Run
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Couple Romantic Sex Valentine Want Wild
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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Anxiety Drown Kill Love Man Panic Save Want
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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Country Dreams Friendship Kite Life Love Space
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Beginning Business Dreams Influence Inspirational Reality
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
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
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
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
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
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
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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Book Careless Dreams Madness Movement Night Peace Seek
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
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
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Depression Healing Let Go Master Pain
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution
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

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