The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each 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.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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 a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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