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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.

Anais Nin

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
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
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
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
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
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
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
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
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
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
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Change Different Love People Prince Reserve Right
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
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
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
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
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
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
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power

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