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" The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. "
Anais Nin
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" There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "
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" Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. "
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" What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? "
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" Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. "
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" Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. "
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" The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. "
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" I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. "
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