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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Adversity Defeat Endure Inspirational Life Lose Stumble Suffering
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
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
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
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
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
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
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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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
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

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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