We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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