There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.


Anaïs Nin

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Descripti...
SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE
"Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day." ~ Tom Baker
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CRAIG GROESCHEL
History teaches us that there are two different ways to gain control over a nation. One way is throu...
ANONYMOUS
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT
Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
DREW BARRYMORE
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES KETTERING
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES F. KETTERING
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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“Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais...
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Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la...
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And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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there are three things that can show you the ...
TOBA BETA
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GARY F EVANS...
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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.
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         one 
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t...
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The views expressed by Me are in no way endorsed by CBS any of its allied companies or in fact Me.
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There is more potential for the two sites to work in a way which makes the most of their combined st...
ARA DARZI
I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you...
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
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I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
CHICO MAROC
Kisses: Words which cannot be written.
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ANAïS NIN
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAïS NIN
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the botto...
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When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. Ther...
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to...
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t...
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ...
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence...
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
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You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
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We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I write emotional algebra.
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She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
ANAïS NIN
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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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.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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