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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage…
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,…
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty…
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in…
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words,…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he…
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One word of wisdom is as good as a hundred ordinary words.
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