The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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