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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
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
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Consistent Look Pleasure Quiet Transformation Women
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 love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence
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
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
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
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
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
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
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel

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