The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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