Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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