Vous pensiez que l'innocence suffirait à vous délivrer des filets d'un système juridique dont nous sommes toujours fiers, mais qui en ces temps de guerre est devenu une aberration.


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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is t...
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My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that'...
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The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - ...
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I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
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The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my ...
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Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their...
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake:...
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When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dare...
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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what i...
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but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was...
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for yo...
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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness,...
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Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on to...
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Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the...
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She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing the...
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If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world
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We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of i...
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If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
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لا شك أن الحب قادر على تغيير كل شئ فى حياة الانسان خلال �...
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There is always a gap between intention and action..
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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of li...
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No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence aroun...
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A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’...
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving
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When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? ...
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She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: i...
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You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in dar...
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Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me...
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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't h...
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Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
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In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of ri...
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People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
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Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
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Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
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When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
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Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

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The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can...
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Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep wha...
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was...
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The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many thin...
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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never d...
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I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that a...
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name ...
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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...
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The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness
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ليست الحرية غياب الالتزامات، إنما القدرة على اختيار ما...
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Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to c...
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...
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The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirro...
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Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his ...
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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I a...
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Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
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No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some...
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Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.
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The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
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We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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All love stories are the same.
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And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the sam...
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But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not g...
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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...
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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
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Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of...
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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...
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It's risky, falling in love."

"I know that," I answered. "I've been in love before. It's ...
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In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the price...
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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water...
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To love is to lose control.
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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
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God always offers us a second chance in life.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and w...
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If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under th...
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciati...
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