Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINI take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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