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.
ANAIS NINYou don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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