When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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