No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINEach 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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