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• Violence is a symptom of impotence.
• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
• To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage…
• I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
• He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
• We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,…
• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty…
• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
• The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
• I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,…

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