"When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
~ Anaïs Nin ~












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"Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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