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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Contact Human Precious Preserve Rare Relationship
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Feeling Language Music Sensation Sense Sound
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
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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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
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
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
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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Artist Freedom Monk Possession Powerful Rich World
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World

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