The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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