You cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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You 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.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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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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