Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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