And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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