The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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