Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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She 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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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