We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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